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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEETCE'.

CHARLES \V. \VEISS, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

POCKET Cl GAR-LlGHTER.

EPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,513, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed June 1, 1886. Serial No. 103,732. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. WEISS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new. and useful Improvement in Pocket Cigar-Lighters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, inwhich Figure l is a sectional view of my improved cigar-lighter in line i y of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 a transverse section in line m x of Fig. 1.

Myinvention relates to that class of pocket cigar-lighters in which a prepared wick or cord of tinder is ignited by a spark generated in the apparatus.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficient device in which the tinder supplied in the customary manner is ignited at will by means of sparks flying from the frictional contact of a fixed piece of steel with a rotary emery-wheel.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the metallic case of my cigar-lighter,constructed in the usual manner, to inclose and afford suitable support for its' movements. Within this case a tubular receptacle, B, is fitted to receive the wick or tinder O. The ends of the tube extend to the periphery of the case, and are open, so that the wick C may be passed through it. Aslender hook, D, attached to a chain, E, whose outer end carries a button, F, of a diameter slightlylarger than the mouth of the tube B, is made to engage the forward'end of the wick, whereby when this end of the wick is drawn into the tube the button will be made to close the mouth thereof, as shown in Fig. 1, and, remaining there, will furnish a ready means by which the end of the wick may be drawn out again for ignition.

An opening, G, is formed in the periphery of the case A, immediately in front of the mouth or forward end of the wick-tube B, and an emery-wheel, H, is mounted to rotate within the case upon a suitable spindle or arbor,whose ends find their bearings in thetwo side plates of the case in such position that the periphery of the wheel shall be immediately beneath the opening G and in front of the mouth of the wick-tube, as is illustrated in Fig. 1.

A plate of springsteel, K, is made fast to the inner side of the periphery of the case, to rest and bear with an elastic pressure upon the periphery of the wheel in front of the opening G.

The arbor-of the emery-wheel H is provided with asmall pinion, I, secured thereto, which meshes into atrain of toothed wheels, L M N, of which the third, N, is secured upon an axle 0r spindle, P, which, projecting through the side of the case, is fitted exterior-1y with a crank or equivalent ring, R, by which the spindle may be readily rotated. The train L M N is so geared as to multiply greatly the speed of each successive wheel, and the emerywheel H is thereby made to turn at the rate of one hundred or more revolutions per minute by a comparatively slow rotation of the spindle P by means of the ring R. It is evident that additional wheels may be added to the train, if desired, to increase the velocity of the wheel H.

The rotation of thecrank or ring R from left to right will cause the emery-wheel to rotate at its high speed toward the wick O, and by contact with the steel plate K will cause a stream of sparks to fly from the steel against the end of the wick O, drawn out from the mouth of the tube B by means of the button F to receive them. The sparks caught upon the wick will ignite it, and the burning wick may then be used for lighting thecigar. To extinguish the wick it is only necessary to draw its burning end back into the tube B, which may be readily done by pulling out the portion, 0, of wick projecting from the opposite end of said tube.

My device is thus constructed of few and simple parts, viz: a suitable case, A; a train of three or more toothed wheels and pinions geared to rapidly multiply their speed and inclosed in the case; a crank or ring, R, outside of the case, secured to the end of the masterspindle P, carrying the first wheel, N, in the train; an emery-wheel, H, upon the shaft or spindle of the last pinion, I, in the train; a bit of elastic steel, K, made fast to bear upon the emery-wheel opposite an opening, G, in the periphery of the case, and a wick, 0, contained in a wick-receptacle, B, whose mouth is oppositethe opening in the case.

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I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a cigar-lighter, with a suitable case therefor, of an emery-Wheel, a steel plate in contact therewith, a train of geared Wheels actuating the same, and a crank or ring outside the ease for drivi ng said wheels, to produce thereby a rapid rotation of the emery-wheel in contact with the steel and a consequent emission of sparks from the latter, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination, in a cigar-lighter, of a train of geared wheels and pinions and a suitable case inelosing the same, a crank or ring upon the outer end of the arbor of the master wheel in the train, an emery-Wheel fixed upon the arbor or spindle on the last pinion in the train, a piece of steel held in contact with the periphery of the emery-Wheel beneath an opening in the case, and a receptacle for tinder, secured upon the case with its mouth opposite the opening, whereby a revolution of 'the emery-wheel produced by the turning of the crank or ring will cause sparks to fly from the steel toward the mouth of the tinderreceptacle, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in the presence .of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. XV. W'EISS. XVitnesses:

S. A. STARUS, A. N. JESBERA. 

